Author Topic: Cutting off their nose?  (Read 4199 times)

Robbie

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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #25 on: August 22, 2017, 11:52:23 PM »
It was obvious to anyone with half a brain steveH.

As for the idiot turning down the money being someone earning two or three times what a nurse earns Owlswing,you could be right in this case but make no mistake there are some well paid nursing jobs around, depends on their training,experience and grading,like most other professions.
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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #26 on: August 22, 2017, 11:55:25 PM »
I read this as your agree with the DHM!
Sigh. The Mail would probably condemn the hospital for its "politically correct" (to use their tiresome phrase) attitude, and just for once they'd be  right. As it happens, though, I checked, and they reported it with uncharacteristic even-handedness.
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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2017, 01:10:10 AM »

Sigh. The Mail would probably condemn the hospital for its "politically correct" (to use their tiresome phrase) attitude, and just for once they'd be  right. As it happens, though, I checked, and they reported it with uncharacteristic even-handedness.


Maybe they need to see a nurse for a check-up?
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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2017, 06:40:06 AM »
I am presuming the comments that it was 'demeaning' meant that it was demeaning not to the people taking part but to women nurses by presenting a 'sexist' idea of them,  possibly too it could be seen as mocking transgender. If they had dressed up in blackface and sung Camptown Races, there would probably be more agreement with the point, though 40 years ago that too might have been descried  as PC have slipped the bounds of sanity.

There does not seem to be a push from women nurses or transgender people to see this sort of thing as oppressive, and in that absence the decision seems to have been taken on preventative offence taking on others behalf. This seems unwise.
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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2017, 09:40:42 AM »
How about this for a scenario for a thriller.
Tories on an NHS trust plan to discredit political correctness which they think is labour by gussying up an extreme example of it.
Press whip this up, public think oh no is this life under Labour and at next election duly drop trousers and touch toes.

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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2017, 10:30:34 AM »
How about this for a scenario for a thriller.
Tories on an NHS trust plan to discredit political correctness which they think is labour by gussying up an extreme example of it.
Press whip this up, public think oh no is this life under Labour and at next election duly drop trousers and touch toes.
More like a Brian Rix farce than a thriller surely?
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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2017, 12:45:44 PM »

More like a Brian Rix farce than a thriller surely?


Or a Carry On?

Or a Jerry Lewis?
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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2017, 12:59:31 PM »
I suppose there'll always be some miserable, humourless, prigs about, best to just sweep round them.

Can't say it was my idea of fun but so what, it was a gesture full of good intent to be applauded.

ippy

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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #33 on: August 24, 2017, 03:18:45 PM »
I suppose there'll always be some miserable, humourless, prigs about, best to just sweep round them.

Can't say it was my idea of fun but so what, it was a gesture full of good intent to be applauded.

ippy

Well said ippy.
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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #34 on: August 26, 2017, 01:00:49 PM »
Yes, cutting off their nose to spite their faces. I can understand an ex service persons charity not wanting money from EDL/BNP, but this refusal is just plain silly.

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Re: Cutting off their nose?
« Reply #35 on: August 26, 2017, 01:48:26 PM »
I read this as your agree with the DHM!
Sigh... Yes, and I was assuming that the Mail would be on the side of the fund-raisers.
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